Garment heater and drier



Aug.26,1941 AJ. w. TEEL- 2,254,126 GARMENT HEATER AND DRIER y Filed oct. 25, 1940 Patented Aug.- 26, 1941 UNITED- s-TAT'E s 5Fl-TENT o-FFI C i; l

I i I GARMENT AND I i I John W. Teel, Muskogee, Okla.

2 Claims.

This invention relates to drying and shaping. of garments, and the invention has advantages in drying and shaping so-called shorts, whereby the seat portion of the garment and thereafter the leg portions of the garment are dried and shaped while drying.

An object of this invention is to provide a heated form or forms whereby parts of garments are successively shaped and dried, and means are also provided for exerting tension on the garments so that they are held in close contact with the drying forms in order that when they are dry, they have the appearance'of having been ironed and iinished.

An object of this invention is to provide drying forms, as stated, and yieldable means for exerting tension on the fabric after it is applied to the forms, and the tensioning means are of diiierent lengths in order that the long. ones can be employed where the legs of the garment are short and the shorter tensioning means may be employed where the leg or other portions of the garment extend to lower positions on the forms.

A further object of this invention is to provide novel means for holding the tensioning means so that they can be adjusted at diierent positions around the form, and the invention further contemplates the provision of a novel garment engaging clamp to be associated with the tensioning means.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a View in elevation, partly in Section, of a drawing device embodying one feature of the invention;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Figure 3 illustrates a view in elevation, partly in section, of a medium for drying and shaping the seat portions of the garment;

Figure 4 illustrates an enlarged view in elevation of the tensioning means; and

Figure illustrates a detail of the clasp associated with the tensioning means.

In the drawing Ill denotes a base and a pedestal thereon, to which an exhaust pipe I2 and a supply pipe I3 is connected, of which pipes I4 and I5 are relative extensions, it being understood that the pipe I3 supplies steam to the interior of the hollow form I6, here shown as tapered from the bottom to the dome The hollow form I6 may be threaded, a-s at I8, to a base I9, which base is seated in the upper end of the pedestal II, and the pipes I4 and I5 may be threaded in the said base. The pipe I4 is in alinement with a port 2|] in the base, or the said pipe may extend through the base, as those skilled in the art will understand.

A collar 2| is attached to the pedestal and spider-like arms 22 have their inner ends anchored to the collar while their outer ends are attached to and support a ring 23, on which the tensioning members 24 are loosely mounted through the employment of a ring 25 at one end of each tensioning member. The lower end of the tensioning member has a clip or clamp 26 loosely applied to it, and the arrangement is such that the prongs 21 of one of the members are intended to penetrate the material of the garment, and the ring 29 which is oscillatably mounted on the plate 29 is employed to press the material onto the prongs 2l; that is to say, the material is inserted between the ring and the prongs and the ring is then pressed so that the material is forced onto the prongs. The prongs are formed as a part of a U-shaped member the loop of which embraces the lower ring 25 of the tensioning member, and the parts of the member having the prongs 21 are embraced by a sleeve 30. It is obviou-s that the collar 2| may be adjustable on the pedestal I I so that the tensioning devices will operate in conjunction with longer or shorter garments.

In the device shown in Fig. 3 the hollow form 3| for the seats of the garments is mounted on Ia pedestal having supply and exhaust pipes communicating with the ball, and in this form the device, generally identied by the numeral 32, for cooperating with the tensioning member is the same as that shown and described in connection with the disclosure of these parts in Figure 1. In Fig. 3 the garment 33 is shown as applied to the form, with the tensioning member engaging one side thereof and it is to be understood that any number of tensioning members may be employed, according to the requirements in practice. Since the support for the tensioning member and the coacting parts thereof of Fig. 3 havebeen described, it is thought unnecessary to refer to them in detail or to specifically apply reference characters to them.

2. In a garment heater and drier, a pedestalV having pipes therein for conducting a heating element, a base for a hollow form on the pedestal having peripheral threads, a hollow form having a. ange at its lower end threaded to engage the threads of the base, means for stretching the garment on the hollow form including a collar attached on the pedestal, arms radiating from the collar, a ring supported by the arms, and garment engaging means adjustable on the ring and operative to exert a pull on the garment supported by the hollow form.

JOHN W. TEEL. 

